REALM OF DARKNESS

Although this game is not complex to solve in terms of the uses of/for objects, the order in which you perform certain actions is crucial. The order in which you obtain the jewels is not important. Some objects are needed only once, others more than once. Some objects were needed to get the jewels directly, some to get the treasures directly, some to get these items indirectly. Mapping is relatively simple.

Rather than provide a walkthrough, general hints, detailed hints, necessary objects, their purpose and locations, and how to access them are given below.

Type help for some clues. Solve the crytopgrams by substituting each letter with the previous letter in the alphabet. For example, substitute F with E, S with R, and so on. Additonal hints are given below.

Get the chest as soon as possible. Otherwise you can only carry 5 objects excluding what you wear. If you drop an object, the thief takes it. I believe you can retrieve these objects from the secret room north of the Treasury, once you have the card, but I did not need this.

To carry more objects, drop chest (not beside a hole), climb chest, drop object, go North to find yourself where you were, or South to the Dispatch room. Don’t forget to take the chest with you. To retrieve objects from the chest, just take them.

You need to dig with the spade four times: at the beach for the bottle, at the mound north of the hut to enter the cave system where you also need to dig to find the diamond, and at the bumps to get the carrot to give to the rabbit.

You need the knife for three purposes: to prise the amethyst out of the split tree, to cut the strap to get the key and to cut the reed to make a breathing tube. It is important to do the last action last, as you lose the knife.

Wear the net, robes, ring and boots.

Jewels	- Location/Access
 
Diamond - Dig with spade in cave system south of the mole
Sapphire - In clear water
Gold Bar - Examine/search straw
Opal - Examine slab, follow directions
Emerald - Hit boulder with hammer
Ruby - Push altar
Pearl - Take necklace. Go down to get the pearl
Amethyst - Prise amethyst from split tree with knife

Treasures - Purpose - Location/Access

Bracelet - open trap, move boulder - In the safe in hut
Staff - jump over boulders and ravine - In rabbit hole
Sunstone - see in the dark - Examine picture, follow directions by statue
Orb - none discerned - Break urn with hammer in cottage
Elfstone - see in murky water - In black box north of cold annex

Obstacles - How to get past, what to do

Hyena	- Drop bone
Dog - Eat bean
Cottage - Ring bell, give password
Marsh - Wear boots
Password - Listen, shout at clearing south of thicket, find poacher and open trap
Boulder - Wear bracelet
Black box - Unscrew screw with screwdriver
Mole - Have heatshield
Statue - Examine picture, follow directions
Small Annex - Pray or kneel
Elephant Doors - Insert tusk
Tangler Tree - Chop roots	
Tea Chest - LOOK SEA in tree with bees, go North of boulder at beach, search flotsam, wait

Objects - Purpose - Location

Axe - Chop tangler roots - Gypsy stall
Bean - Pass dog - Search grass
Bottle - Catch bees - Dig with spade at sea cave
Bone - Distract hyena - East of palm print cave
Boots - Cross marsh - Switch computer on
Can - Kill rat - Search nest in pool
Card - Retrieve stolen objects (?) - Free poacher by opening trap
Carrot - To get staff from rabbit - Dig bump
Coin - Give to gypsy to get axe - In chest
Gloves	 - Avoid burning yourself - Examine armour
Hammer - Hit boulder, break urn - Search leaves east of mole
Heatshield - Pass mole - East of dog
Key - Open safe - Cut strap with knife
Knife - see above - Climb tree in woodland, examine branch
Net - Catch bees - Search sea cave
Opener - Open can to kill rat - Search rubbish
Password - Enter cottage - Free poacher by opening trap
Reed - Breathe in pool - Cut bushes
Ring - Open door - Search reeds
Robes	- Open door - Small annex
Screwdriver - Open black box - Sift ashes
Skeleton - Get key - Cave system west of hut
Spade	- see above - Look under bushes
Tusk - Open elephant doors - Beside dog

Terri Sheehan
June 2000

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